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Reduced funding for the new Work and Health Programme could mean that each year 45,000 people with disabilities will be able to access specialist employment provision, according to a new report.
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People with learning disabilities, mental health issues or acquired brain injuries are being given the opportunity to get more involved with services, with the aim of making them person-led.
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There is still often confusion and ignorance concerning people with learning disabilities, according to a new survey, released to coincide with the launch of a new campaign to increase awareness.
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A new online tool is giving the public the opportunity to ask some of the taboo questions about learning disability that usually they’d be too afraid to ask.
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A disability charity has relaunched a creative campaign to raise awareness of the importance of adult social care and of funding it properly.
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Eight out of 10 autistic children find going to school so stressful that they experience anxiety. Of those, 58% find this anxiety so debilitating that they miss days at school, according to a new survey.
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A temporary senior commissioner who defrauded NHS Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) of nearly £145,000 has been jailed for two years and three months.
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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched new Public Policy Statements on Hate Crime and put them to a public consultation. The statements focus on crimes against disabled people, racial and religious and homophobic and transphobic…
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Three autism-friendly hate and mate crime reporting centres have been opened in the Wirral, giving autistic members of the community more opportunity to report alleged offences of abuse, bullying, theft, online harassment and manipulation…
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Autistic people are more logical in their decision-making and less susceptible to making emotional responses than their peers without autism, according to research.
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